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Hello to the 'pedal to the metal' crowd:I am a retired artist/media/professor type who has done 10 CD's with synths/guitars/pedals etc. I began building cigar box guitars last year and have sold 15…Continue

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I will do Blind Lemon Cello. I've now found a 12v 20ah battery that by calculation should last well over 20 hours powering a 12v 800ma pedal? It's £40 but deep cycling so can be drained to just above 10%. I'm hoping to have a battery meter too to make sure I don't take it below 10%. The charger is another £40 but it's not a trickle charger so worth the extra money it would seem. Amazing how much can be learned from a day spent reading about this stuff and watching videos lol.

Might not be doing the battery build for a while due to finances but as soon as I've done it I'll post pictures and maybe even a "how to".

Thanks again. You've been a fantastic help and I really appreciate it. Have a great weekend. Bear :o)

That's one serious pedal Bear!! When you said pedal I was thinking a distortion type pedal only. Curious as to the specs on the battery you received. 12v 7ah should last for hours like you mentioned. Post pic when project is done.

It's a tube pedal from Vox. 12v and 800ma. I've found a battery that will charge it for over 20 hours and a charger to go with the battery. Not cheap but well worth it. I was going to use an inline switch to turn the power from the battery on and off but I guess that's what the power switch on the pedal is for. Thanks again for your help last night Blind Lemon Cello. It helped lots!

Thanks again for getting back to me Blind Lemon Cello. Yes I'm in the UK. Everything is grounded over here. I lived in the USA for a few years and was always surprised at the plugs over there.

The splicing sounds much easier and as you say it can maybe charge the battery that way too. I'll try that method. No doubt I'll be able to use the bits I bought anyway. I'll post photos once it's done and hopefully it might help others in the UK. Obviously with thanks and credit to you included in there too!

Seems like a lot of messing about for one pedal but I've wanted one since I got into the CBG game so worth going that extra mile for. To me anyway.

Your in the UK? So I assume your working with the standard "G" plug. In the USA most pedals are just 2 wire with 9v adapters from 120v and they separate. I think I may of misunderstood your project and I apologize as I was referring to what I had done to my buskin' amp a few posts earlier. To run your pedal on the 12v battery you will need to bypass your standard male "G" plug which I assume is stepping down your voltage from 240v to 12v? If you want to keep the plug in option you will need to splice the positive & negative wires from the battery into the harness. This way you can plug in or go remote with the battery. Keeping the pedal in the off position the splice can also act as a battery charger by plugging your "G" plug into your 240v source, the spiced leads are seeing 12v which will return to the battery if that plug is also reducing the voltage. If the voltage is reduced in the pedal then all contacts will have to be done internally.

I've bought some parts on ebay just now (battery, battery charger and a wall socket) but it's raised another question. When wiring the live and neutral points of the battery to the common wall plug socket in the battery housing (a box), what do I do about ground? Also, do I need something to invert the power so I can plug in a 240v plug?